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I came to understand that bad words were only the beginning of the writing process. Brilliance lay not in writing…
I was in the middle of a fruitless search for a black northern monologue to take back to drama school,…
Is ‘having a message’ or ‘wanting to say something’ old-fashioned and a detriment to the development of great art? ‘Having…
The inspiration here has involved a movement from poetry to prose. This is something that pleases me immensely; one genre…
Nigel Cliff speaks with James McConnachie about Van Cliburn and Vasco da Gama, and history’s turning points. Nigel Cliff speaks…
There’s no end, no tedium, in a lifelong love affair with language, just small endings when you reach the conclusion…
I don’t know exactly when I gave up pretensions to being a serious reader, but the crime and children’s books…
Does the art of turning ‘true life’ into biography, film or television inevitably lead to a manipulation of the truth.…
I had only just learned to read, and deciphering Mary’s idiosyncratic script was one of the pleasures of reading the…
Stephen Wyatt takes us to the Gallifrey One convention, and Doug Johnstone explains how he found his voice through failure.…
Reading as a writer and not just as a reader is a different experience, both richer and less carefree; instead…
Remember that too, that silly optimism, because no one believes more in your work than you and your belief is…
